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Today's Member Focus: Anthony Foronda has two styles of illustration work. Primitîf is naïveté infused with color and concept. Realismé is textural and more realistic interpretations of concepts. Click here to see more of Anthony's work: http://aforonda #illustration #realism #texture #editorial #fineart

unfinished art work is the sign of the artist ☺️🥰#landscape #illustration #bookIllustration #childrenbookillustration #storybook #septemberart #pencildrawing #colorpencilillustration #colorpencildrawing

"Maker is both a noun and a verb." This is the subject of my post today, with ideas and images. See more here: https://lnkd.in/eDxGXY_M

Sometimes it can feel like the street is speaking to you. Do you know that feeling?... A peculiar aliveness, a sudden calling of your attention into a moment: a shadow, a broken rear view on the side of a car, a constellation of leaves in the gutter. Maybe you might describe this sarcastically as being in your own movie. Now that we all have music in our ears as we move around, it’s an experience that can be turbo-charged. But I think, if we are lucky, we can go one step further and enter into our own form of eyes-wide-open dreaming. Walking the streets, this is how writing poetry often begins for me. Though, if I am honest, it is also about a mood that is already descending, something you sense, and lean into, as you look around and listen. Your creative response becomes a way of keeping a strange veil parted, suspending you between the visible and the invisible. With luck, the outside world is acting in sympathy, its textures and coincidences turning your inner life open with only the slenderest and most prosaic of keys. Your reward is not only the little work of art that arises, but a time of prayer, a shiver, an elusive chance to identify meaning in your life, however instinctual that ‘meaning’ might be. It's via this sensibility that I began to notice the work of Gary Deirmendjian about a year ago. His seemingly random posts signalled a whole other way of using social media that I had not seen before.... #garydeirmendjian #streetart #installations #interventions #onlineart #poetry #improvisation #foundart #armeniangenocide #familyhistory #religion #upbringing #siteart #video #sculpture #mixedmedia #humour #sovietunion #disguisedlife #uncertainty #wanderer #observer #politicalart #symbols #Connections #loneman #reflection https://lnkd.in/gBWa7epc

"Legitimate" Having a character use this word is an option for showing them as being rigid, judgmental, or elitist. The use of “legitimate” when speaking about anything having to do with creativity makes the word stand out even more (to me, anyway!). What is a “legitimate” painting or a “legitimate” book or a “legitimate” sketch or a “legitimate” love song? Who gets to make that decision? What are the criteria? What does it mean to express your creativity illegitimately? As you’re writing, remember that the words that characters use, including the context in which they say these words, can subtly give the reader information about the character’s background, personality, goals, and more.

TL;DR SEND ME QUESTIONS Once upon a time, I wrote. And then things happened and I stopped writing. (I started painting again, but that's a story for another time. Today is about writing.) I didn't completely stop. I mean, I revised an old book. But that was me basically correcting ten year old mistakes. Anyway, I need to start writing again. And I need your help. Because I enjoy writing if I (delusionally) believe it’s going to help people. What I need from you is questions. You ask a question. I answer it. Will they be good answers? I will try to make them good answers. Am I asking you for free labor? Kinda, but the labor it takes to answer the question will be higher than the labor it takes to ask it, so I feel pretty good about the transactional equity of the request. Can the questions be about design? Sure. Do they have to be? No. Can you ask me about mental health, music, art, different seasons of Below Decks? Yes, yes, yes, and yes. Will I answer all your questions? No. Only if I feel like I can add some value to people’s lives with an answer. My goal with this is to start writing again, and also to feel useful. I'm beginning to feel like I've been hiding in a cave for the last four years. (The reasons for this are understandable. We have ALL been through it. We are STILL going through it. And the "IT" is far from fucking over.) This will all be happening on my newsletter, (which lives on Buttondown and does NOT cater to Nazis like Substack does) by the way. So hey, subscribe to my newsletter, come up with a question. Tell me if I can use your name or you wanna stay anonymous. My goal, which I am saying to you out loud to keep myself honest, is to do this once a week. And to show you that I mean it, I've already answered one, and I'm attaching it below. (The subscription link is at the bottom of that.) Thanks in advance, Mike https://lnkd.in/gUJFmB9F

Takeaway: EP6 "The Broken Pencil" A young artist was frustrated. Her pencil had snapped in half, and she angrily threw it aside. “It’s useless now,” she muttered. Her grandfather, sitting nearby, picked up the broken pencil. He smiled and said, “A pencil doesn’t stop being useful just because it’s broken. Watch.” He sharpened the shorter end and began to sketch a beautiful scene on a nearby piece of paper. “See? It still works. Sometimes, we feel broken, but that doesn’t mean we can’t create something beautiful. You just have to use what’s left.” The girl picked up the other half of the pencil, sharpened it, and smiled. The key #Takeaway of this EP: Even when life feels broken, you still have the power to create and contribute. Never underestimate what remains. Share and Repost ♻️♻️♻️ Engage with me in the comments! #TheDiscussionTalkShow #LifeAndLiving #RealTalkWithAslam #LivingFully #LifestyleConversation #InsightsWithGuests #LifeLessons #EverydayDiscussions #ConversationsThatMater #BeyondTheSurface #LifeWithAslam #BTSWithAslam #MyTalkShowJourney #MeetOurGuests #PersonalReflections #AslamSpeaks #AskAslam #WeeklyRecap #InspirationByAslam #RealTalkMoments #DailyDoseOfLife #StoryTimeWithAslam #TheTakeawayWriter #LifestyleTips

Heya! What do you think about my most recent personal project? 🐂 This short video shows how I made a book cover for The House of Asterion. Before you say anything, I know it’s just a short story, but I wanted to design an entire book cover because it’s one of my favourite pieces of literature. Ever! Just like The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse and Vladimir Nabokov’s Invitation to a Beheading. I can’t believe it took Borges just two days to write it… 🐂 By the way, there is a reason why I chose to use inverse perspective. With this type of perspective, the lines do not converge on the horizon *inside* the painting, but instead they converge on the viewer, creating the illusion that the painting is looking at them and not the other way around. The viewer themselves becomes part of the painting. It’s alleged that this is the reason why inverse perspective was frequently used in Christian icons. ☝🏻 Some scholars, however, claim it was most likely caused by a simple lack of concern with normal perspective, but I digress. 🐂 But in my case, the focal point of the drawing is the Minotaur, and all the lines converge on him, emphasising his profound loneliness. He is the only inhabitant of his cold universe, waiting for someone to fill the empty space. 🐂 I find this story one of the most relatable out of all Borges’ work. It resonates with my deep loneliness and drive for ultimate liberation. . 🐂 . #bookcoverdesign #bookillustration #bookcovers #bookcoverart #freelanceillustrator #editorialillustration #illustration #bookillustrator #detailedillustration #watercolourillustration

"Nani in 5" by Nani Marquina Today, we chat with her to discover who is and what are behind nanimarquina  1# A nani rug (that is not yours)   Losanges 2# The iconic design object you would have liked to design.  Any Isamu Noguchi Akari lamp, because I love the warm light achieved and the handmade paper. 3# A designer or artist with whom you would like to share a dinner.  If he were alive with Eduardo Chillida, and chat about how he combines poetry with art. 4# What is more valuable: the idea or the result?   The result, because it is the value of the idea. 5 # In the creative process, how often do you reject the first idea?    A lot of times I reject the first idea I have - good ideas are the ones that stay in your head for a long time.

🤔 What makes one artwork more alluring than another and why does it matter? ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ I was discussing Hunters in the Snow by Tobias Wolff this morning and later found myself thinking about why the writing was so effective. On the surface, it’s a story about three friends who go hunting. One of them shoots another and then they all head for help. Under the surface it’s about acceptance, internal fears, secrets and social perception but to find what’s under the surface you first have to want to find it. Tobias, in Hunters in the Snow, makes the standard satirical ribs between the fellas dark and/or cold enough that they are no longer standard. We start to wonder, what’s the point of writing this way: what are we missing? Da Vinci, amplifies the subtleties in skin and being so much that the static takes on a sense of life. 500 years later, we’re still having a conversation about whether Mona is happy or sad. Wade Robson, who choreographed Hummingbird and Flower, took something I’d seen 1,000 times, and turned up the volume so loud and in such a way, that I couldn’t unsee something more than two people dancing; or stop thinking about what that something more was. The “story that lies within” is exploited by many great works of art and great artists make sure to craft their works to be alluring enough to draw your curiosity. Often, they do this effectively by taking some generally relative experience or subtle aspect of it, and amplifing it with drama/hyperbole. It’s as curiously attention getting as when you smash your own thumb. It teases the taste buds, makes you look, titillates your ear drums or, otherwise, scratches an itch you didn’t know you had... until you felt the scratch. So, turn up the volume, turn some heads, let your story linger and unfold. #Art #Impact #Creativity #PublicArt